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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law Vol. 24, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 11-23.
Experts in forensic psychology must make skilled observations and conclusions, minimally compromised by bias, in order to try and provide reliable and accurate conclusions to the courts. But the field has little data revealing how well forensic psychologists actually perform these tasks, in part because there has been no clear framework for systematic research of their expertise. Therefore, we consider forensic psychological assessments in light of Dror’s (2016) Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law Vol. 24, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 48-63.
Whereas there is a common assumption that most individuals with a criminal record can be eventually reintegrated into the community, the public has different expectations for sexual offenders. In many countries, individuals with a history of sexual offenses are subject to a wide range of long-term restrictions on housing and employment, as well as public notification measures intended to prevent them from merging unnoticed into the population of law-abiding citizens. This article examines the testable assumption that individuals with a history of sexual crime present an enduring risk for sexual recidivism.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law Vol. 24, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 1-10.
Decision-making of mental health professionals is influenced by irrelevant information (e.g., Murrie, Boccaccini, Guarnera, & Rufino, 2013). However, the extent to which mental health evaluators acknowledge the existence of bias, recognize it, and understand the need to guard against it, is unknown.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Vol. 86, Iss. 2, (Feb 2018): 125-139.
Objective: Our objective was to assess low-cost and feasible feedback alternatives and compare them to Lambert’s OQ feedback system. We also studied patient, therapist, and process characteristics that could moderate the effect of feedback on outcome, session attendance, and alliance.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Journal of Abnormal Psychology Vol. 127, Iss. 1, (Jan 2018): 1-11.
The hopelessness theory of depression is a prominent account of depression that posits that individuals with a negative inferential style are more likely to become hopeless when they experience negative life events (NLEs) and that hopelessness is a proximal cause of depression. There is strong evidence supporting the role of a negative inferential style in the pathogenesis of major depression; however, substantially less is known about the proposed role played by hopelessness.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Vol. 49, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 39-47.
Amassing research findings suggests that religious faith and/or spirituality (R/S) can both help and hinder recovery from mental health conditions that might prompt military veterans to seek psychotherapy or counseling. As such, there is increasing interest among psychologists and other professionals working with military populations in the helpfulness of addressing the R/S domain. However, research has yet to examine veterans’ actual preferences for integrating R/S in their treatment.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychology of Violence (Feb 12, 2018): No Pagination Specified
Objective: Limited research has investigated the influence of risk and protective factors on homeless youths’ health and social problems. This study presents a meta-analysis exploring associations between family and peer risk and protective factors and exposure to physically violent behavior in homeless youth.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (Feb 12, 2018): No Pagination Specified
Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can have devastating effects on multiple aspects of functioning. Thus, it is imperative to increase access to evidence-based treatment for PTSD. Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) has extensive empirical support and is one of the first-line PTSD treatments included in civilian, veteran, and military clinical practice guidelines. However, the standard 90-min PE session format can constitute a significant barrier to its adoption in routine clinical care settings, which typically schedule 60-min appointment sessions. If the length of PE sessions could be reduced from 90 to 60 min without compromising treatment efficacy and efficiency, this would remove a major barrier to PE adoption.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Neuropsychology Vol. 32, Iss. 1, (Jan 2018): 89-101.
Objective: The frequency of mind-wandering (MW) decreases as a function of age in healthy individuals. One possible explanation is that MW is a resource-dependent process, and cognitive resources decline with age. The present study provides the first investigation of MW in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to further examine the resource model and discontinuities between healthy aging and AD.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Neuropsychology Vol. 32, Iss. 1, (Jan 2018): 65-76.
Objective: Decreased processing speed in schizophrenia patients has been identified as a major impairment factor in various neuropsychological domains. Working memory span has been found to be involved in several deep or effortful cognitive processes. We investigated the impact that these 2 cognitive functions may have on phonological and semantic fluency in schizophrenia patients and healthy participants.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Stigma and Health Vol. 3, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 1-8.
Stigma is a common difficulty for those who experience psychosis as they are viewed as most dangerous, unpredictable, and least likely to recover. In particular, experiences of stigma are yet to be explored with inpatients admitted to psychiatric hospital. The aim of this study was to examine subjective experiences of stigma with acute psychiatric inpatients who experience psychosis.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Stigma and Health Vol. 3, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 16-26.
Health disparities related to stigmatized characteristics, including sexual orientation, have been well-documented. However, it is largely unknown whether temporal declines in stigma at a structural level contribute to concomitant reductions in health disparities between stigmatized and nonstigmatized groups. The objective of this study was to (a) explore associations between reductions in structural stigma (i.e., laws, policies, and social attitudes concerning sexual minorities) during the past decade in Sweden and sexual orientation-based mental health disparities, and (b) identify potential mechanisms that might explain this relationship.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Stigma and Health Vol. 3, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 77-84.
Extensive research confirms that people with psychotic disorders suffer high levels of social stigma on average. However, psychotic-like experiences show incredible diversity and cannot reasonably be understood as a monolithic category. It is plausible that voice-hearing experiences with benign content might elicit less stigma than those with negative content, and researchers have hypothesized that culturally or theologically consistent voice-hearing experiences might elicit no stigma at all.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (Feb 15, 2018): No Pagination Specified
It is known that religiosity is a positive correlate of well-being among adolescents and emerging adults. The current study extends this focus by assessing the roles of self-efficacy and perceived social support, which are presumed to explain the association of religiosity with psychological well-being (PWB). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Stigma and Health Vol. 3, Iss. 1, (Feb 2018): 42-52.
Substance use disorder is one of the most stigmatized health conditions. Stigma internalization is one of the main consequences of the stigmatization process, and it is associated with lower self-esteem and self-efficacy and worse recovery prospects. It may also bring guilt, hopelessness, anxiety, self-devaluation, and depression. This study investigated self-stigma among substance dependents who sought treatment, testing the construction of a psychosocial model for understanding this phenomenon.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry Vol. 31, Iss. 1, (2018): 17-30.
Existing research has primarily evaluated music therapy (MT) as a means of reducing the negative affect, behavioral, and/or cognitive symptoms of dementia. Music listening (ML), on the other hand, offers a less-explored, potentially equivalent alternative to MT and may further reduce exposure to potentially harmful psychotropic medications traditionally used to manage negative behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Psychology of Violence (Feb 15, 2018): No Pagination Specified
Objective: College women are at risk for exposure to sexual victimization, which is a risk factor for posttraumatic stress (PTS) and sexual dysfunction. Contemporary models of female sexual functioning identify the role of distal (e.g., sexual abuse) and proximal (e.g., psychological) variables in contributing to female sexual response. This study examined whether and how PTS symptom clusters are related to specific domains of sexual functioning in a sample of sexually active college women who reported a history of sexual victimization. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Reports on behavioural outcomes after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease are controversial and limited to short-term data. Long-term observation in a large cohort allows a better counselling and management.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

The meaning of psychiatric symptoms prior to a diagnosis of genetic frontotemporal dementia is discussed as either being part of a prodrome or being a sign of congenital neuronal vulnerability.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Open access. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder presenting clinically with personality change (behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD)) or language deficits (primary progressive aphasia (PPA)). About a third of FTD is familial with mutations in GRN, MAPT and C9orf72 being the major genetic causes. Robust biomarkers of the underlying pathology are still lacking in FTD with no markers currently being able to distinguish those with tau and TDP-43 inclusions during life.

The primary outcomes from this study of psychotherapy for young people with bipolar disorder identified that most participants had continued to remain well. Given that up to 80% of people relapse within two years, it was important to establish how these participants described the process of staying well.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.

Because the association between rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) and impulse control disorders (ICDs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been debated, we assessed the sleep characteristics and the frequency of RBD using video-polysomnography (v-PSG) in patients with PD with versus without ICDs.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

Open access. Being married is associated with healthier lifestyle behaviours and lower mortality and may reduce risk for dementia due to life-course factors. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of the association between marital status and the risk of developing dementia.

Editorial commentary. This JNNP meta-analysis, which included 15 studies with 812 047 participants, showed an elevated dementia risk in lifelong single (42%) and widowed (20%) but not divorced persons compared with those who were married.1 Although one study from Sweden contributed the vast majority (92%) of participants, the other studies were also broadly in agreement and, importantly, came from a wide range of countries across the world: Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden), North and South America (Brazil, USA) and Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan). Furthermore, the robustness of the association was shown by sensitivity analyses for demographic factors (sex, whether study subjects were born before or after 1927) and study methodology (type, quality). However, the association with dementia subtypes was not significant likely ….... To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.

This quality standard covers the management of Parkinson’s disease in adults. It does not include treatment of parkinsonism not caused by Parkinson’s disease. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

Individuals with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) are at increased risk of developing self-injurious behaviour. The persistence of this deleterious behaviour over years is reported in aetiologically heterogeneous samples to be between 60% and 80% but is unknown for TSC.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.

Adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have consistently poorer health outcomes than the general population. There is evidence that routine health checks in primary care may improve outcomes. We conducted a randomised controlled trial of practice nurse led health checks. Here, we report findings from the nested qualitative study in GP practices in Scotland.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.

Open access. Adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs) experience high rates of falls and have high rates of gait or balance issues which contribute to falls. Lycra splinting garments (LSGs) have potential to improve gait or balance, but they have never before been tested with adults with IDs who fall due to gait or balance issues. The aim of this study was to test in adults with IDs, the feasibility of using LSGs to improve movement and function and reduce falls, whilst also exploring usability and likely compliance.

This quality standard covers recognising, assessing and managing mental health problems in adults (aged 18 and over) who are in contact with the criminal justice system (this includes police contact, court and prison custody, street triage, liaison and diversion services, and probation services). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

Ireland has a growing population of adult persons living with family carers, thereby increasing the demand for residential places. Simultaneously, government policy aimed to reprovision residents living in congregated settings but at a time when funding was curtailed due to the economic crisis. This study examines the movements of people into and among three types of residential options between 2009 and 2014.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai

The increasing number of individuals with an intellectual disability who are at risk of developing dementia highlights the need to use measures with strong psychometric properties as part of the screening, assessment and diagnostic process.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai

The aim of the study was to conduct the first systematic review investigating the prevalence of loneliness in people with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) and the interventions targeting loneliness.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai

It is important to investigate receipt of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services, service patterns and outcomes for youth with autism, so that limited public resources can be used more efficiently.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai

Describe and summarize workplace characteristics of three nursing generations: Baby Boomers, Generations X and Y.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.